by Jürgens, Uli (2016)
Ilse Melamid, Hans Menasse, Ari Rath und Dora Schimanko gehörten zu jenen Kindern, die 1938/39 mit so genannten Kindertransporten ins Ausland geschickt wurden, vor allem nach Großbritannien – organisiert von der Jüdischen Gemeinde und den Quäkern – oder auch mit Hilfe der Jugendalijah nach Palästina. Sie waren vor der Verfolgung durch die Nationalsozialisten in Sicherheit, wurden von wohltätigen Familien aufgenommen oder aber zu harter Arbeit verpflichtet. 45 min.
by Firestone, Rabbi Tirzah (2019); Published by Monkfish Book Publishing
Our past does not simply disappear. The painful history of our ancestors and their rich cultural wisdom intertwine within us to create the patterns of our future. Even when past trauma remains unspoken or has long been forgotten, it becomes part of us and our children―a legacy of both strength and woundedness that shapes our lives.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/wounds-into-wisdom-healing-intergenerational-jewish-trauma-new-preface-by-author-new-foreword-by-gabor-mat-reading-group-and-study-guide-tirzah-f/053179da5dcaf641?aid=56539&ean=9781948626828&listref=second-and-third-generations&next=tPublished by Lester Public Library
A Kindertransport panel is part of the exhibit “World on the move“ at the Lester Public Library.
by Charin, Geoffrey (2021); Published by Book Guild
It’s the summer of 1938 and Veronica and her fascist boyfriend Billy attend a pro-German event hosted by the 5th Duke of Wellington. Amid the evening’s glamour and fervour, Veronica meets Sir Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford, who invite her on a trip to Berlin. All over Europe, evil triumphs as good men do nothing, but for Veronica, doing nothing is no longer an option. As Europe edges towards war and the Nazis prepare to unleash the Kristallnacht pogrom on Germany’s Jews, the British government juggles appeasing Hitler with growing pressure to accept Jewish refugees. Veronica finds herself entering into a high-risk world of deadly intrigue and high-level political conspiracy to place herself at the very heart of darkness: Berlin under the Nazis.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/without-let-or-hindrance-geoffrey-charin/210dfbd5b4014dbd?aid=56539&ean=9781913913397&listref=kindertransport-fiction&next=t
Located in London is the world’s oldest Holocaust memorial institution. They have a large collection of Kindertransport materials.
by London, Louise (2000); Published by Cambridge University Press
Whitehall and the Jews is the fullest study yet of the British response to European Jewry under the Nazis, and the first detailed account of British immigration policy toward refugee Jews. The British government always put self-interest first and sought to avoid long-term responsibility for large numbers of homeless Jews. Nonetheless, aided by the sympathy of certain officials and ministers, many Jews obtained refuge, albeit subject to severe restrictions.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/whitehall-and-the-jews-1933-1948-british-immigration-policy-jewish-refugees-and-the-holocaust-louise-london/7293289854aa03fb?aid=56539&ean=9780521534499&listref=kindertransport-history&next=tby Epstein, Helen (1997); Published by Boston: Little, Brown
A memoir of the lives of Epstein’s mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Zeller, Frederic (1989); Published by Sag Harbor, New York: Permanent Press
Frederic Zeller’s story of his childhood in Berlin and escape to Holland, where he joined a Kindertransport. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Michael D. Bulmash; Published by Kenyon College, Chalmers Library
A digital collection of Kindertransport-related artefacts and documents.
by Sonnert, Gerhard and Holton, Gerald (2006); Published by New York, Palgrave Macmillan
This book aims to create a collective biography of Jewish young people who were born in Germany or Austria between 1918 and 1935 and fled to the United States. It endeavors to present a statistical picture as well as to capture personal experiences based on a five-year, in-depth study. One of the book’s aims is to provide readers with information to influence the view of immigrant newcomers in the United States today.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/what-happened-to-the-children-who-fled-nazi-persecution-g-holton/29346a6afc2af70a?aid=56539&ean=9781403976253&listref=kindertransport-history&next=tby Brigitte Hofacker; Published by Jüdisches Leben in Frankfurt
A biographical profile of Werner Rothschild, a Jewish child from Frankfurt who escaped Nazi Germany via the Kindertransport and later built a life in the United States. His story traces the rupture of forced displacement, the challenges of resettlement, and his eventual service in the U.S. Air Force.
(8 May, 2019) Published by MacShul - McDonald International Shul
Renee Moss, who came on a Kindertransport aged 20 months tells the story about how the family was separated and by a miracle eventually came reunited to England.
by Eliach, Yaffa (1990); Published by Brooklyn, NY: Center for Holocaust Studies and Documentation
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
(8 May, 2019) Published by MacShul - McDonald International Shul
Edie Marcovitch tells about the Bachad Hostel she and her late husband Shalom managed in Rowledge between 1942 and 2945, where they hosted Jewish children evacuated from London. Some of the children were from the Kindertransport.
by Hopkinson, Deborah (2020); Published by Scholastic Focus
Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth’s experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and arrests.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/we-had-to-be-brave-escaping-the-nazis-on-the-kindertransport-scholastic-focus-deborah-hopkinson/fdcbab6aa987b901?aid=56539&ean=9781338255751&listref=kindertransport-for-young-readers&next=tby Gershon, Karen (1966); Published by New York: Harcourt Brace and World
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
(7 May, 2019) Published by MacShul - McDonald International Shul
An original documentary about the Kindertransport, an effort to rescue Jewish kids. It has been screened for the first time during Yom Hashoah Ceremony at Macdonal International Shul in Netanya, Israel.
by Edelman, Gwen (2001); Published by New York: Penguin Putnam
by Berkley, George E. (1988); Published by Lanham, Maryland: Madison Books
Traces the history of the Jewish community in Vienna, assesses the extent of Austrian anti-Semitism, and explains why the Jews were so fond of pre-World War I Vienna. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Kratz, Käthe (2002)
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.